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Dana Milbank: Governing by anecdote
It did not sound good for Sen. Pat Toomey.
"I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor and I'm facing the loss of insurance," the Pennsylvania Republican declared Wednesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the health care law. "Three years ago, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis," he added. "If my coverage is not in place before January 1, I will have to go without my medications. This may cause permanent disability, blindness, inability to walk, speech problems."
Happily for Toomey, he was not describing his own maladies. He was reading emails sent by his constituents. But the senator has contracted a dangerous condition that can cause people to have impaired judgment. It's called governing by anecdote -- and it's spreading.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., spoke about "Margaret from Manhattan, Kansas," who had trouble getting through to a toll-free number for the health care exchange. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., relayed the situation of 39-year-old Emily, who has lupus. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was greatly agitated about one "Mr. Dougall" not getting a return call from the HealthCare.gov website.
"Let me talk about Mr. Hood, who lives close to me," proposed Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C.
Confronted with this anecdotal assault, Democrats defended Obamacare in kind, with Richard from Oregon, Karl and Bonnie from Wisconsin, Kathleen from Iowa, Gary from Montana and far too many more.
"While it's always risky to legislate by anecdote, we're telling stories here today," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., had said Tuesday at the first of two Senate hearings on Obamacare. "And so, let me just add one to the mix, and that's Betty Berger from Meriden, Connecticut. ... Betty's story became one that can be repeated 2 million times every single year across this country."
Republicans are right to hammer President Obama for his dishonest -- and now debunked -- claim that those who like their insurance plans can keep their coverage. Millions who buy their own health insurance will not have that option. The White House knew this during the health care debate and didn't tell the truth.
But what Republicans are doing now is dishonest, too, because their constituents' tales of woe, even if true, aren't representative. Suppose the worst forecast proves to be true, and 12 million people cannot renew their coverage and must find new policies on the exchanges. In a country of 317 million people, that group would still be dwarfed by the number of people now able to get health insurance for the first time -- and by the overwhelming majority of Americans who are largely unaffected by Obamacare.
Using props to make policy may be unreliable, but it's apparently irresistible.
At a hearing of the Senate's Health Committee on Tuesday, Scott devoted almost all of his questioning of Marilyn Tavenner, the Medicare chief, to one constituent, the aforementioned "Mr. Dougall," who allegedly had personal information disclosed to others on HealthCare.gov.
"Mr. Dougall is now requesting that the personal information for all of his family be removed from HealthCare.gov, because he could not remove it himself," Scott informed Tavenner. "Mr. Dougall has called on several occasions, but no one will call him back."
"We have reached out to Mr. Dougall several times, and we will find him," Tavenner offered.
"I'm happy to give you his phone numbers," Scott proposed.
"I think we have them," Tavenner told him.
"He doesn't think so, actually," the senator maintained, "because no one's called him."
"Well," Tavenner said, "we have a disagreement there."
Whatever horrible thing happened to poor Mr. Dougall, it's hard to imagine it should be the top priority of the person struggling to salvage the Obamacare launch. Or perhaps distracting Tavenner from that work was Scott's purpose.
After she takes care of Mr. Dougall, Tavenner can work on Mr. Hood's rising premiums in North Carolina (mentioned by Burr) and Emily's rising out-of-pocket costs in Tennessee (mentioned by Alexander).
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, at Wednesday's Finance Committee hearing, was charged with addressing Steven from Topeka's difficulty with the website (by Roberts).
Democrats felt compelled to defend Obamacare with happy anecdotes. Mary Lapis' brother saved $700! Steven, from the Akron, Ohio, suburbs, can now buy insurance! Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) told of the favorable website experiences of Greg in Bloomfield Hills and Crystal in Pontiac. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the chairman of the finance panel, offered Gary from Billings, Allison from Wolf Point and Tony from Bozeman, all satisfied Obamacare customers. "I have no doubt," he said, "that stories like these will keep coming in."
Follow Dana Milbank on Twitter, @Milbank.
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John Adams
2nd president (1797-1801)
Background/Early Life
• John Adams grew up in Massachusetts, attending Harvard College before launching a successful career as a lawyer. He was well-respected in Boston and chosen to defend the British soldiers charged in the 1770 Boston Massacre. He argued for them in a tense political climate, and they were not sent to jail.
• Adams was a prolific writer, often crafting essays supporting the cause of rebels against England.
• Adams was a member of the Massachusetts delegation to both the First and Second Continental Congresses. He later spent time in Europe enlisting the help of the French during the American Revolution and then to help negotiate the treaty that ended the war.
• He served as the first United States minister to England before coming back to America to serve as the country's first vice president.
How he defined the office
• Because of how much time he spent overseas Adams was uniquely qualified as president to handle foreign affairs. He felt he could handle foreign matters while Congress dealt with domestic policy.
• In 1800 John and Abigail Adams moved into the still-unfinished Executive Mansion (later to be called the White House), where every president since has lived.
Successes and failures
• Adams became president at a time France, in the midst of its Revolution, saw a treaty between the United States and England as a threat. Adams attempted to send representatives to France, but they were not received at first by the prime minister, and then would only be received if the United States paid a bribe. This became known as the XYZ Affair, and it upset many in America.
• Many of Adams's policies were a reaction to the problems in France: The Navy Department was created, and Adams worked with Congress to build up the Army and the Navy. Taxes were increased to help pay for these measures. In response to a distrust of the French, the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798, which allowed for the detention of enemy aliens without a trial, the lengthening of the naturalization period before someone could become an American citizen, and the punishment of speech against the government. France and America were involved in conflicts at sea until Adams finally was able to send representatives to negotiate peace with France before he left office.
Notable quote
• "Because power corrupts, society's demand for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."


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Religion News: Religious liberty showdown coming for Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could affect faith-based organizations around the country. The Court agreed to hear the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri v. Comer 15 months ago, in which the church had applied for a Missouri state program to reimburse nonprofits for rubber playground surfaces made from recycled tire scraps, but was later denied funding based on the state constitution's Blaine amendment in 2012. The state said it could not allow money from the state treasury to go "directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion." Missouri is one of 38 states that have Blaine amendments, which forbids direct government aid to educational institutions that have a religious affiliation. Erik Stanley, senior counselor for the Alliance Defending Freedom who will argue the case on behalf of Trinity Lutheran, said states shouldn't be allowed to use its constitutions to treat religious organizations and churches as second-class citizens. "The state shut the door to Trinity Lutheran solely because of its religious status as a church." The Missouri Department of Natural Resources had originally ranked Trinity's application for the $20,000 grant fifth out of the 44 entities bidding for the scraps, but Trinity's preschool was not one of the 14 applicants chosen. A ruling is expected by the end of June from the Supreme Court.
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American atheists underreported
According to University of Kentucky scholars, there could be more than twice as many atheists in the U.S. than previous studies have found. Polls from Gallup, the Pew Research Center and Barna have previously reported that the number of atheists in the U.S. is between 3 and 10 percent. The study, conducted by psychologists Will Gervais and Maxine Najle, found that the real number of atheists in the U.S. could be as high as 26 percent. Gervais and Najle said that the numbers could be artificially low because people are embraced to admit they don't believe in God.
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"In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope John Paul II" by Pope Saint John Paul II
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Today in the news: FBI prevents 'localized terror attack' in Minnesota
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The FBI believes police disrupted a "localized terror attack" planned in Montevideo, Minn., according to the Associated Press. Montevideo is about 130 miles west of Minneapolis. Authorities found Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms in the mobile home of Buford Rogers. Rogers was arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The FBI has declined to name the intended target of the attack, and credited the prevention of the attack to cooperation between local, state, and federal authorities.
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"There are no winds of war." - Yair Golan, general commanding Israeli troops on the Syrian and Lebanese borders. Israel is believed to have made two airstrikes against the Syrian president's troops in the Barada River Vally and Qasioun Mountain, Reuters reports. At least 42 soldiers were killed and 100 more were reported as missing. Israeli officials said the attacks were intended to destroy Iranian missiles being transported to Lebanese Hezbollah militants.
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This past summer, the Today show used its Twitter account to share some news about the birth of an unusually heavy child. Along with a link to its story about the immense infant, Today included for its more than 2 million followers this brief note: "Woah baby! 13-lb. 7-oz. baby delivered in Spain."
It was a typical Today show tweet—punchy, conversational, vanilla—but it caught the eye of New York magazine senior editor Dan Amira. Unmoved by word of a gigantic newborn, Amira—who recently left New York magazine for a job at The Daily Show—focused on something smaller (much smaller): the placement of an "h." In retweeting the message, Amira affixed a brief, pointed comment: "It's 'whoa.' "
He drove home the same point a week later when @HuffPostEdu tweeted a link accompanied by the sentence, "Whoah: Professors get bulletproof whiteboards." Political reporter Chris Cillizza heard from Amira when he decided to go with "WHOAH" in a tweet about the unusually early availability of pumpkin spice latte this year, and Time's Zeke Miller got called out by Amira on two different occasions during four weeks of whoa tweets. Although he had moved on to other topics by September, Amira's half-prescriptivist, half-hilarious crusade shone light on a notable fact about 2013: It was the year of everybody spelling "whoa" a zillion different ways.
Without question, this has been an especially whoa-full year. But why? "Whoa" is hardly a new word; it dates back to at least the early 17th century. At that time it was used mostly in shouted form and was intended to garner the attention of someone in the distance. Around the the mid-1800s, people began using "whoa" to halt forward-moving horses, and by the latter half of the 20th century it had morphed into an expression for conveying alarm, surprise, or advanced interest. (Messrs. Bill and Ted solidified the strength of this usage in 1989, Joey Lawrence sealed the deal during the '90s, and Keanu Reeves reappeared without Bill S. Preston, Esq. to help usher the word into the new millennium via The Matrix.)
The expression is now exceedingly common, and in 2013 the continuing ascension of its usage overlapped with the advancing popularity of social media to create an unstoppable force of media momentum. With so many people using the word on Facebook, Twitter, and other networks that drive Web traffic these days, it appears as though editors and writers this year felt they had little choice but to join the parade. By using "whoa" in headlines, as the opening word of published articles, and pretty much everywhere else online, they seemed to be hoping that readers would see it and think: "Hey, what comes next must be really exciting, because there's that same 'whoa!' all my friends use on Twitter when interesting and important things happen." But people were so busy writing that there was no time, apparently, to agree on how we all should be spelling it.
Merriam-Webster, a host of style guides, 238 likers of the Facebook page "It's 'Whoa' not 'Woah,' " and rapper Earl Sweatshirt all support Amira's take on the proper and preferred contemporary spelling of "whoa." But don't tell that to hundreds and hundreds of headline writers who worked on articles published in 2013. In January, for instance, the Daily Mirror ran a story online titled "Woah! Rochelle Wiseman's Baby Bump Pops Up Out of Nowhere." Wonkette posted a story and video accompanied by "Woah: Fox & Friends Nearly (Accidentally?) Practiced a Tiny Smidgen of Journalism." (As if to prove that "woah" headlines transcend all party lines and political ideologies, Glenn Beck's the Blaze, in late autumn, trotted out "Woah: America's Youngest Voters Have Turned on Obama in a Big Way.") Just a few weeks ago, the Apple news website Cult of Mac ran with "Woah! Check Out the Beautiful Curved Front at Apple's Refurbished Stonestown Store."
There are scores of similar headlines where those came from. (Not to mention the extensive body-copy, sentence-level usage of "woah" that occurred online this year among the approximately 5,220,000 hits that result from a Google search on that spelling of the word.) And we can't forget the spelling and grammar free-for-all that is the blogosphere, or the slapdash sentences that show up on message boards, or the legions of Craigslist posters who used "woah" to jazz up apartment listings during this calendar year. For those looking to own some "woah" in 2013, there was tons of woah-emblazoned Zazzle junk for sale, and a marijuana leaf–pattern "Woah Dude 2.0" dress is available right now on Amazon for $26.
But where "woah" with the "h" at the end really blew up this year was on social media. Typing the hashtag "#woah" into the search box on Twitter at any given moment results in something on the order of 50 tweets an hour. Remove the number sign from the front of "woah" and the result is more like 50 tweets a minute. ("Woah he got pushed," "Woah, where did my highlighter go?" and "WOAH! Heat wave! 34 degrees!" just scrolled by on my computer screen.) Even putting aside Twitter, there were thousands of Instagram and Vine and Tumblr posts tagged with "woah" in 2013.
And if you were thinking you could perhaps quarantine yourself so as to preclude exposure to the Today show–style "woah" by avoiding all forms of social media and, say, spending some time relaxing in front of the TV, think again. This month, the History channel began airing an episode of its popular series Pawn Stars under the title, "Woah Pilgrim."
The sheer breadth and depth of woah-filtration during 2013 surely exists as a source of frustration for Dan Amira. But you know who else is none too pleased with all these four-letter, "h"-ending woahs being tossed around?
"Whoah" people, that's who!
So, the members of Midnight Oil, and Chris Cillizza, and the person at BBC America who came up with the headline "Status WHOAH!" for a piece about a mincemeat ad, they're all in that crew. Joining them are the individual who maintains a Pinterest food page with the heading "Whoah!!!," thousands of mostly unknown people who posted silly videos on YouTube, and lots of other individuals who enjoy adding h's to the ends of things.
There's good news and bad news for those in the "whoah" camp. Earlier this month, just in time for the holiday shopping season, KBOI TV out of Boise, Idaho, alerted visitors to the station's website about a break at the gas pump like so: "Whoah! Gas prices in Kuna drop below $3 a gallon." News from the U.K. morning newspaper Metro in early August about the laundry habits of bachelors provided less cause for celebration: "Whoah! Single Men Wash Their Sheets 'Four Times a Year.' "
All things considered, it's been a banner year for "whoa," no matter how you prefer to spell it. In fact, the word hasn't seen this level of media saturation and pop cultural prominence since 2000, when rapper Black Rob released a rugged, very un-PC and not-safe-for-work, pre–Earl Sweatshirt club banger called "Whoa!" All the spellings, taken together, combined to form a Voltron-type superword that was pervasive in our communications this year. Sure, if you want to be all Amira about it, you could point out that "whoa" with the "h" following the "w" and an "a" at the end was once again the version that was most commonly used—due largely to the stamp of approval that goes along with being sanctioned by various books held in high regard. But there's nothing particularly new about the word spelled that way showing up all over the place (with its trusty sidekick, the exclamation point). This year in whoa-ness was noteworthy instead because it was a magical and ridiculous time when more people than ever were spelling this goofy word in more ways than ever.
And for those of you who haven't fully experienced or appreciated the extent to which the spelling of "whoa" was all over the place this year, don't fret. There are still a few days left to enjoy the very best of what this expression has to offer. If you're willing to spend a little time Googling, or playing around on social media, you'll be blown away by the zany whoa-related things you find. In fact, here's an idea that will allow you to see just how far afield things have gotten. Before the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, try this fun experiment: Sign in to Twitter and run a search on the craziest of all crazy attempted-whoa spellings, whao.
Surely no one uses that version. People may type "woah" or "whoah" sometimes out of habit, or for lack of knowledge about the preferred spelling, but no one writes "whao" instead of "whoa" right?
Just three minutes before I typed this, someone tweeted "WHAO!! Target's CEO Refuses to Sell Beyoncé's New Album." A few hours earlier, a different Twitter user noted, "Whao, it's 1:40 already." Earlier in the day, someone tweeted, "Whao . . What are you talking about?" So, yeah, that one's out there, too. Is it just a typo, rather than a deliberate spelling? Maybe. But in this highly textual age, the typos of today can become the variant spellings of the future.
So give the "whao" search a shot when you have a second and let me know in the comments if you come across anything especially ridiculous.
We'll leave the "whaoh" searches for next year.


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The Amherst literary monthly, 1897 February
Amherst College Digital Collections > Archives & Special Collections
|Issuing body
|Amherst College
|Press of The Bryant Printing Company
|The Amherst literary monthly, 1897 February
|Amherst literary monthly (Amherst, Mass. : 1887)
|Date Issued
|Volume 11 Number 8 of The Amherst Literary Monthly, a student-run literary journal. The first magazine was published in April 1886 and from then through 1932 it was published during the months of October-June, with some exceptions. From 1932-1955 the magazine suspended publication. Publication resumed in 1955 and continued until 1973 when publication ceased. Since the inception of the magazine, there were numerous title changes: The Amherst Literary Monthly (1886-1910); The Amherst Monthly (1910-1920); Amherst Writing (1920-1928); and Amherst Literary Magazine (1928-1932 and 1955-1973). The journal was often referred to as the Amherst Lit. Throughout its run, the magazine remained a literary publication with issues often including entries such as essays, poems, short stories, satire, prose and verse, letters, literary sketches, editorials, scripts, and book and theater reviews. Some issues also included drawings. The editors of this issue were Percy H. Boynton, Walter S. Ball, George M. Butler, F. Mansfeld Allan, E. Clark Hood, and Harry G. Dwight.
|This issue was digitized from multiple original sources.
|Physical Description
|1 item (pages 357-406) ; 25 cm
|Place of Publication
|Amherst (Mass.)
|Place of Manufacture
|Florence (Mass.)
|Magazines (periodicals)
|College student newspapers and periodicals – Massachusetts – Amherst
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Republican Senate opposition to Hagel crumbles
Barring any new, damaging information, Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the nation's next defense secretary. A vote ending the bitter fight over President Barack Obama's choice for his revamped second-term, national security team is expected next week.
Hagel cleared the threshold when five-term Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama said he would vote for the former GOP senator from Nebraska after joining other Republicans last week in an unprecedented filibuster of the Pentagon nominee.
"He's probably as good as we're going to get," Shelby told the Decatur (Ala.) Daily.
Although a Republican, Hagel has faced strong GOP opposition, with many of his former colleagues voting last week to stall the nomination. Republicans have questioned Hagel's support for Israel, tolerance of Iran and willingness to cut the nuclear arsenal. His opposition to the Iraq war after his initial vote for the conflict angered his onetime friend, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
GOP lawmakers demanded more time to review the nomination that a divided Armed Services Committee had approved on a party-line vote.
Shelby's support was a clear sign of weakening Republican opposition, and it prompted two letters within hours from Hagel's fiercest GOP foes. One letter went to the president calling on him to withdraw the nomination, the other to GOP senators pleading with them to stand together against Hagel.
Fifteen Republicans senators wrote that Hagel lacks the bipartisan support and confidence to serve in the vital job of defense secretary.
"The occupant of this critical office should be someone whose candidacy is neither controversial nor divisive," wrote the senators — all opponents of Hagel. Leading the effort was Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the party's No. 2, who is up for re-election next year.
One name missing from the letter was McCain, who has called Hagel unqualified but indicated last Sunday that he wouldn't stand in the way of a Senate vote.
Separately, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, sent a letter to his GOP colleagues urging them to vote again to block the nomination when the Senate returns from its recess next week. He acknowledged the reality that if the GOP fails to block a vote, Hagel proponents have the votes to approve him on an up-or-down vote.
"Make no mistake: A vote for cloture is a vote to confirm Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense," wrote Inhofe. He said that while the Senate traditionally defers to presidents on their Cabinet choices, "our nation is at war. The Senate must insist on confirming only the most effective leaders."
The Senate Republicans' closed-door weekly meeting on Tuesday will be crucial to Inhofe's hopes of keeping the GOP in line on Hagel.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney rejected GOP calls for Hagel to withdraw. He complained that Republicans were putting politics ahead of national security, pointing out that the administration wants Hagel to be part of decisions on the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan as American and coalition forces wind down combat operations.
"This waste of time is not just meaningless political posturing because we firmly believe that Sen. Hagel will be confirmed. The waste of time is of consequence," Carney told reporters.
The Senate also is holding up the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director, with Republicans and Democrats seeking more information about the U.S. policy on the use of drones. Hagel and Brennan would join Secretary of State John Kerry in Obama's overhauled, second-term national security team.
If confirmed, Hagel, a twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran, would succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is stepping down after four years first as CIA director and then Pentagon chief.
In a boost for Hagel's nomination, former Republican leader Bob Dole, a decorated World War II veteran, issued a statement Thursday saying, "Hagel's wisdom and courage make him uniquely qualified to be secretary of defense and lead the men and women of our armed forces. Chuck Hagel will be an exceptional leader at an important time."
Hagel is expected to get all 55 Democratic votes and the support of three Republicans — Sens. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Mike Johanns of Nebraska and Shelby. Two other Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — voted last week to allow the nomination to move ahead and are expected to do the same next week, giving Hagel the requisite 60 votes out of 100 necessary to end a filibuster.
An up-or-down vote on confirmation, with only a majority necessary, could occur as early as Wednesday.
The filibuster left the administration angry and troubled by the prospect of a nomination in limbo, with opposition groups redoubling their efforts to scuttle Hagel and the uncertainty of a weeklong Senate break. But the administration is more confident about Hagel's prospects after private conversations with several senators to ensure Hagel gets past the 60-vote barrier, according to an official close to the confirmation process. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss private conversations.
Hagel's nomination also has become entangled in GOP demands for more information from the Obama administration about the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has described Hagel as "radical" and pressed for Obama to abandon the nomination. Graham sent a new letter to Hagel this week with fresh questions about Israel, after Hagel responded to a separate Graham letter on Israel last week.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.


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Therefore the IP Camera Super-Client found on BSTI web site does work with Foscam cameras. The interface is not the clearest and I had a few crashes with it, but it appears to be free (even if a registration is required after some time), so it's still good to take.
More decent is H264WebCam also works with the Foscam FI8908W (selecting BSTI PT100V2W), excepted for the Pan & Tilt function. It exists in free, standard or pro version. It offers motion detection of pre-selected zones, FTP/email alert, recording, and some access control.
WebcamXP gives good results. For the Pan & Tilt to work, the Camera brand selected shouldn't be BSTI, but either Shenzen, or Netwave. This software seems the most capable to me, although it can be slow at times. It's quite complete (webcast, access control, motion and audio detection, email and SMS alert, ... ).
They also provide DirectShow Filters that makes it possible to use the ip camera with Skype for instance.
The 60 days trial version is limited to 1 channel.
Blue Iris also works and includes a lot of features (PTZ, recording, alert to cell phone, IM or email, motion
ZoneTrigger is now reported to work with Foscam cameras using the syntax: http://login:pwd@ipcam_url:port/
vitamin d is a really cool monitoring software featuring people and action rules. Foscam is not listed but can be used as "other" model by specifying http://ipcam_url:port/
vitamin d is available for PC and Mac. The free starter edition allow 1 camera only. Their pricing options are: Basic edition for up to 2 cameras at 49$, and pro edition with unlimited cameras for...199$! Something in between would have been nice for people like myself having 3 cameras! (thanks to Jason for mentioning this application)
Phones with J2ME support
The name Netwave appears in the camera data stream and the Chinese part of their website contains a nice utility: A j2me Camera viewer for mobile phone. It works fine on my SE G705. Keys 2,4,6,8 can be used to Pan & Tilt, 1,3,7,9 for vertical and horizontal "patrols". It now comes on a CD with most recent ip cameras from Foscam.
Esmertec Jbed utility (also here).
Android phones
"IP Cam Viewer" has support for Foscam FI8908W (with PTZ) and FI8904W. The lite version is already very complete. The pro version allows more cameras and is ads-free.
For iPhone: IPVision Pro. Pan & Tilt is made possible by adding this custom plist. The model to select is Foscam/Generic PTZ and the option "continuous" under settings must be enabled (thanks to kevc for his contribution).
Touch Cams from Perreora .
Usage: http://ipcam/snapshot.cgi?
Live Cams by Barry Egerter
supporting Foscam since ver.3.04, including pan/tilt control since 3.10
(thanks +ke luzes for your info on these two)
Foscam Viewer by Neebii
(thanks ruudje1977 for the info)
Dedicated to Foscam's and compatible clones.
- Camera reboot
- PTZ control as well as Horizontal Patrol
- Brightness and Contrast
- Arm/disarm motion detection + reboot
- Control up to 4 cameras
Mozilla Firefox Browser extension:
For more detail, see this review.
Usage: gmotionlive http://user:pwd@camurl/videostream.cgi
Also reported to work with linux phones such as Nokia N900 (Thanks Kevin!)
Smart Baby Monitor
Turn your IP Camera into a Baby Monitor !
· Specially developed for Baby Monitoring (Video + Audio)
· Raises an alarm if an audio activity (crying) detected
· Blanket-kicked-off detection
· Alarm notification via mobile phone through Bluetooth and/or local PC audio
With most camera clients, it is possible to enter a generic cgi command line.
It would look like this for a Foscam camera:
(see the Foscam CGI Guide for detail).


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Local Support
Our overarching business philosophy is that our company's success is intertwined with the greater health of the communities we call home. Houlihan Lawrence is committed to supporting local organizations that help improve the quality of life for everyone who lives in New York City's northern suburbs. Our principals and agents serve on multiple non-profit boards, and our agent community rallies around fundraisers and volunteer opportunities.
Help USAwww.helpusa.org
Help USA provides housing, supportive services and job training for homeless veterans and victims of domestic abuse.
Making Strideswww.makingstrideswalk.org
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the nation's largest network of breast cancer awareness events, uniting nearly 300 communities for special events, raising funds for research, and providing access to mammograms.
Miles of Hopewww.milesofhope.org
Miles of Hope is a non-profit organization devoted to providing services and outreach for people affected by breast cancer within the greater Hudson Valley region.
Light the Nightwww.lightthenight.org
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night Walk funds treatments that are saving the lives of patients today. LLS is making cures happen by providing patient support services, advocacy for lifesaving treatments and the most promising cancer research anywhere.
Support Connectionwww.supportconnection.org
Support Connection is a non-profit organization based in Yorktown, NY, that offers free, confidential support services to people affected by breast and ovarian cancer.
Westchester Children's Museumwww.discoverwcm.org
Set to open in 2015, the Westchester Children's Museum is committed to broadening knowledge of the arts, the environment, multiculturalism, and local and global communities through education and recreation.
Feeding Westchesterwww.feedingwestchester.org
Feeding Westchester serves over 220 local hunger-relief programs throughout the county, including food pantries, soup kitchens, child and adult day-care centers, and shelters.
Putnam Community Action Programwww.putnamcap.org
The Putnam Community Action Program is a non-profit anti-poverty organization dedicated to serving the residents of Putnam County who are struggling to support themselves or their families.
Dutchess Outreachwww.dutchessoutreach.org
Dutchess Outreach is devoted to meeting the basic needs of low-income residents of Dutchess County when no other resources are available to them, and assisting them in becoming self-sufficient.
National Multiple Sclerosis Societywww.nationalmssociety.org
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is dedicated to mobilizing resources and manpower to fund research for the treatment, care, and eventual cure for MS.
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All About Glass
All About Glass
This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Glass Question at our Rakow Research Library.
The Library was established as part of the Museum in 1951. Today, it houses the world's largest and finest collection of resources on the art and history of glass. Much of the collection consists of unique items, such as the archives and original design drawings for stained glass. This video
The Corning Museum of Glass has always been a cultural, educational, and economic center for the surrounding region. Groups, such as the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, rent the Museum's auditorium and other public spaces for performances and other activities. Almost all of the Museum&
On June 23, 1972, Corning suffered a major natural disaster. Tropical Storm Agnes inflicted three days of incessant rain on western New York and Pennsylvania. Corning's normally peaceful Chemung River became a torrent. The river overflowed its dikes, and downtown Corning was inundated. At the
The Museum's glass conservators care for a collection of nearly 50,000 objects spanning 35 centuries. In addition to addressing issues such as crizzling (glass deterioration), they restore damaged pieces. One example is the Tiffany lamp shown here. It came to the Museum in many pieces of
These blinds led to the arrival of glassmaking in Corning. Elias Hungerford, who patented the blinds in 1866, looked for a glass factory that would make them. He persuaded the owner of the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works to move to Corning, where both land and labor were less expensive. The original
In 1959, the Museum curated the landmark exhibition Glass 1959, which was one of the first significant surveys of modern glass. Since then, The Corning Museum of Glass has been committed to introducing new art and design in glass by providing resources, training, and support for artists working in
The Studio, which opened in 1996, is an internationally renowned teaching facility that offers classes in a variety of glassmaking techniques to students of all ages and skill levels. Artists and students come from all over the world to teach, to learn, and to create their own work in glass. The
In 1929, Corning Glass Works accepted a commission to make a 200-inch Pyrex disk for use in a reflecting telescope on Mount Palomar in California. After several trial castings of smaller disks, Corning poured a 200-inch disk in 1934. When part of the mold broke loose, the disk was ruined, but it
Outreach is an important part of the Museum's mission. Each year, the Museum's mobile hot shop travels to art fairs and other museums, providing live glassblowing demonstrations. An all-electric hot shop also sits on the top deck of three Celebrity Cruises ships, where Museum glassmakers
The campus of The Corning Museum of Glass is a collection of modern glass architecture, influenced by three generations of architects, each with the goal of creating a fluid space and incorporating glass wherever possible. This video features Laurie Hawkinson, architect.


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Another Review of "Ideology, Psychology, and Law"
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 27, 2012
At PsychCentral, Dan Berkowitz wrote a terrific review of Jon Hanson's 2012 volume, Ideology, Psychology, and Law. Here are some excerpts:
Ideology, Psychology, and Law is a wonderful collection of essays edited by Jon Hanson, the Alfred Smart Professor of Law and Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. This is the first book edited by Hanson, whose work has appeared in six other books and many periodicals. Hanson also cofounded The Situationist blog in 2005, and in 2011 it won the Media Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Spanning 21 essays, the first of which Hanson wrote (as well as four others which he cowrote), Ideology, Psychology, and Law is an academic book that belongs either on a classroom desk or a library shelf. It's not really the kind of book you bring to the beach for light reading. That said, for students and academics looking to examine the intersection of the three titular areas, Hanson's new contribution is nothing short of a marvel.
Each of its essays is distinct, coherently argued, well written and worthy of reading. Hanson starts the book with his own essay, "Ideology, Psychology, and Law." In it, he lays the groundwork for the remaining essays and gives some background on and context to the meaning of the three terms under discussion. He does not aim to define them, leaving that task to the essays that follow. Rather, Hanson provides the reasoning behind the book's composition:
It should not be obvious what a volume titled Ideology, Psychology, and Law is actually about. After all, each category—ideology, psychology, and law—has numerous definitions and covers a vast domain. Furthermore, the concepts are not commonly understood as closely linked. One goal of this volume, however, is to help delineate the sizable overlap between the categories of ideology, psychology, and law and to show that the links between them are tighter and stronger than conventionally perceived.
Hanson's other goal is to, in a sense, create a new field of study—or rather, to look at preexisting fields in new ways. He writes:
In bringing together some of the world's most illustrious scholars in law, political science, political psychology, and social psychology, my aspiration for this book has been not only to illuminate the intersections among those disciplines but also to expand the ties between those fields in the hope of encouraging more interdisciplinary collaboration, research, and insight in the future.
Hanson is almost calling for some quasi-revolution in how we study these three fields. Human behavior is not only dynamic, but also largely misunderstood. In this way, the implications contained in Hanson's book can result in profoundly new ways of conceiving of these disciplines. And by attempting to reorient the reader's world and renegotiate his perception of reality, Hanson is implicitly catalyzing the evolution of our studies. Are there arguments in Ideology, Psychology, and Law that will be contested? Of course. But they are rooted in such substantive theory and testimony that it is not easy simply to dismiss them.
Moreover, Ideology, Psychology, and Law does not have one single or even several themes that abstractly bind the book together. Instead, Hanson gave his contributors free rein to write and argue as they pleased. In this way, readers will surely agree with certain arguments and disagree with others, and they will surely favor certain essays over others.
My personal favorites are the first section of Hanson's introduction from which I quoted above, "Ideology, Psychology, and Law;" "Bias Perception and the Spiral of Conflict" by Kathleen A. Kennedy and Emily Pronin; "Backlash: The Reaction to Mind Sciences in Legal Academia" by Adam Benforado and Hanson; and "Crowding Out Morality: How the Ideology of Self-Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling" by Barry Schwartz.
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Given its timeliness, thought-provoking nature and ability to elucidate key and heavy ideas, Ideology, Psychology, and Law should without question be studied by those interested in its subjects. As well, Hanson should be commended for his staggering efforts.
Read the entire review here.
Read more about or purchase Ideology, Psychology, and Law here.
Related Situationist posts:
- Jon Hanson on Law and Mind Sciences
- Review of "Ideology, Psychology, and Law"
- The Imagined Ideological Divide
- Ideology, Psychology, and Law – Available Now!
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- Ideology is Back
- Ideology Shaping Situation of Vice Versa
- The Great Attributional Divide
- Naive Cynicism
- The Situation of Polarization
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Marine Gen. John Allen, the U.S. commander of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) in Afghanistan, "flew to Logar province, just south of Kabul, to meet with villagers and offer his condolences for the bombing Wednesday that Afghan officials said killed 18 civilians," reported the Washington Post on June 8."The airstrike was called in by U.S. troops after they came under fire while pursuing a Taliban fighter in a village in the Baraki Barak district.
Allen said to the Afghans:
"I know that no apology can bring back the lives of the children or the people who perished in this tragedy and this accident, but I want you to know that you have my apology and we will do the right thing by the families," … NATO troops often make condolence payments to the families of victims in civilian casualty incidents.
Apologizing implies you'll try not to do the same thing in the future. Otherwise, the apology is empty. The definition of insanity is continuing air and drone strikes and expecting the results to be different each time.
NATO and the United States should just own its atrocities and its intentions to continue committing them. Because they're certainly not going to end until we leave Afghanistan.


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ThemeForest Review: WordPress Templates and Themes
If you're looking for WordPress Themes or Templates for your website, you've come to the right place. Continue reading to learn about ThemeForest's WordPress Templates and Customer Service as well as their Refund Policy. This review will help you make a well-informed purchase decision.
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Some themes are more customizable than others, but most of them offer at least basic customization options. For example, the U-Design theme includes six home page sliders, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more. It also includes more than 500 fonts and is ideal for most websites.
The ThemeForest marketplace offers a wide range of themes to choose from for your WordPress site. Themes are grouped according to their intended use. Themes for blogs, for example, are combined with themes for ecommerce. Each theme has a description and a demonstration. You can also see how many sales the theme has made and the author's name. This helps you determine the best theme for your needs.
The ThemeForest marketplace has more than 35754 designs to choose from. There are themes available for WordPress, Drupal and Magento. There are themes for business, portfolio, or blog. Browse the marketplace to find the right design for you.
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If you are looking for alternatives to ThemeForest, you can find thousands of them on many online marketplaces. These marketplaces can be used for free, and you can also buy premium products from them. For example, CodeGrape offers more than 108500 website templates. There are also a lot of themes and plugins. Although it is priced similarly to ThemeForest's, you can purchase as many products as your heart desires.
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Syrians bracing for possible U.S. strike
WASHINGTON — Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.
No "boots on the ground," Obama said, seeking to reassure Americans weary after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With France as his only major public ally, Obama told reporters he has a strong preference for multilateral action. He added, "Frankly, part of the challenge we end up with here is a lot of people think something should be done but nobody wants to do it."
Halfway around the world, U.S. warships were in place in the Mediterranean Sea. They carried cruise missiles, long a first-line weapon of choice for presidents because they can find a target hundreds of miles distant without need of air cover or troops on the ground.
In what appeared increasingly like the pre-attack endgame, U.N. personnel dispatched to Syria carried out a fourth and final day of inspection as they sought to determine precisely what happened in last week's attack. The international contingent left Syria early Saturday and crossed into Lebanon. They were heading later to laboratories in Europe with the samples they have collected.
Video said to be taken at the scene shows victims writhing in pain, twitching and exhibiting other symptoms associated with exposure to nerve agents. The videos distributed by activists to support their claims of a chemical attack were consistent with Associated Press reporting of shelling in the suburbs of Damascus at the time, though it was not known if the victims had died from a poisonous gas attack.
The Syrian government said administration claims were "flagrant lies" akin to faulty Bush administration assertions before the Iraq invasion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. A Foreign Ministry statement read on state TV said that "under the pretext of protecting the Syrian people, they are making a case for an aggression that will kill hundreds of innocent Syrian civilians."
Residents of Damascus stocked up on food and other necessities in anticipation of strikes, with no evident sign of panic. One man, 42-year-old Talal Dowayih, said: "I am not afraid from the Western threats to Syria; they created the chemical issue as a pretext for intervention, and they are trying to hit Syria for the sake of Israel."
Obama met with his national security aides at the White House and then with diplomats from Baltic countries, saying he has not yet made a final decision on a response to the attack.
But the administration did nothing to discourage the predictions that he would act — and soon. It was an impression heightened both by strongly worded remarks from Secretary of State John Kerry and the release of an unclassified intelligence assessment that cited "high confidence" that the Syrian government carried out the attack.
In addition to the dead, the assessment reported that about 3,600 patients "displaying symptoms consistent with nerve agent exposure" were seen at Damascus-area hospitals after the attack. To that, Kerry added that "a senior regime official who knew about the attack confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime, reviewed the impact and actually was afraid they would be discovered." He added for emphasis: "We know this."
The assessment did not explain its unexpectedly large casualty count, far in excess of an estimate from Doctors Without Borders. Not surprisingly — given the nature of the disclosure — it also did not say expressly how the United States knew what one Syrian official had allegedly said to another.
Mindful of public opinion, Kerry urged Americans to read the four-page assessment for themselves. He referred to Iraq — when Bush administration assurances that weapons of mass destruction were present proved false, and a U.S. invasion led to a long, deadly war. Kerry said this time it will be different.
"We will not repeat that moment," he said.
Citing an imperative to act, the nation's top diplomat said "it is directly related to our credibility and whether countries still believe the United States when it says something. They are watching to see if Syria can get away with it because then maybe they, too, can put the world at greater risk."
The president said firmly that the attack "threatens our national security interest by violating well-established international norms."
While Obama was having trouble enlisting foreign support, French President Francois Hollande was an exception. The two men spoke by phone, then Hollande issued a statement saying they had "agreed that the international community cannot tolerate the use of chemical weapons, that it must hold the Syrian regime responsible and send a strong message to denounce the use of (such) arms."
The day's events produced sharply differing responses from members of Congress — and that was just the Republicans.
Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Obama needed to go further than he seems planning. "The goal of military action should be to shift the balance of power on the battlefield against Assad and his forces," they said in a statement.
But a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, Brendan Buck, said if the president believes in a military response to Syria, "it is his responsibility to explain to Congress and the American people the objectives, strategy, and legal basis for any potential action."
The looming confrontation is the latest outgrowth of a civil war in which Assad has tenaciously — and brutally — clung to power. An estimated 100,000 civilians have been killed in more than two years, many of them from attacks by the Syrian government on its own citizens.
Obama has long been wary of U.S. military involvement in the struggle, as he has been with turbulent events elsewhere during the so-called Arab Spring. In this case, reluctance stems in part from recognition that while Assad has ties to Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the rebels seeking to topple him have connections with al-Qaida terrorist groups.
Still, Obama declared more than a year ago that the use of chemical weapons would amount to a "red line" that Assad should not cross. And Obama approved the shipment of small weapons and ammunition to the Syrian rebels after an earlier reported chemical weapons attack, although there is little sign that the equipment has arrived.
With memories of the long Iraq war still fresh, the political crosscurrents have been intense both domestically and overseas.
Dozens of lawmakers, most of them Republican, have signed a letter saying Obama should not take military action without congressional approval, and top leaders of both political parties are urging the president to consult more closely with Congress before giving an order to launch hostilities.
Despite the urgings, there has been little or no discussion about calling Congress back into session to debate the issue. Lawmakers have been on a summer break for nearly a month, and are not due to return to the Capitol until Sept. 9. Obama has not sought a vote of congressional approval for any military action. Neither Republican nor Democratic congressional leaders have challenged his authority to act or sought to have lawmakers called into session before he does.
Senior White House, State Department, Pentagon and intelligence officials met for an hour and half Friday with more than a dozen senators who serve on the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. He described the discussion as "open and constructive."
The White House will brief Republican senators in a conference call Saturday at the request of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a spokesman for the senator, Don Stewart, said.
Obama's efforts to put together an international coalition to support military action have been more down than up.
Hollande has endorsed punitive strikes, and told the newspaper Le Monde that the "chemical massacre of Damascus cannot and must not remain unpunished."
But British Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt to win a vote of approval in Parliament for military action ended in ignominious defeat on Thursday. American attempts to secure backing at the United Nations have been blocked by Russia, long an ally of Syria.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged a delay in any military action until the inspectors can present their findings to U.N. member states and the Security Council.
Ganley reported from Paris. AP writers Angela Charlton in Paris, Zeina Karam in Beirut, Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, and Julie Pace, Josh Lederman, Donna Cassata, Matthew Lee, Lolita C. Baldor and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.


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We're back! After a four-week summer break, Formula One has returned to Spa-Francorchamps. And it was overtake city, crazy qualifying and terribly gorgeous drives. Warning: spoilers.
It's a cheeky little trick, Formula One's summer break. Just when one is about ready to give up waiting for the season to return, it's back, and it's back with Spa-Francorchamps, which is electrifying motor racing perfection. This is how Formula One should always be. From the first qualifying laps, it was an ultra-speed roller coaster in the harsh forests of the Ardennes, on a track with elevation changes so extreme that the engines fluctuate in power a full one percent between the top of the hill and the bottom of the valley.
Then there's the weather. Like the Nürburgring, its neighbor across the Belgium-Germany border, Spa-Francorchamps has got its own microclimate, which translates into meteorological theatrics that would shame Tierra del Fuego.
It's funny, with all that crazy weather, that Jenson Button never won a race here. Not like he didn't try. He was up on the top of the table in the first part of qualifying, which was on a drying track. Times were dropping lap by lap, and Button was set for an easy cruise into the top ten shootout for pole when he was erroneously told by McLaren to do no more laps and to cool off his tires. Bad call. Button qualified a lowly 13th. Meanwhile, his teammate Lewis Hamilton overtook Pastor Maldonado's Williams during qualifying to ensure himself a spot in the shootout, and Maldonado then swerved across the start-finish straight to deliberately bump into his McLaren. Venezuela's ill-tempered bad boy got a five-place grid penalty for his impulse-control issues, and Hamilton got a new wing and some duct tape.
Hamilton himself, his McLaren patched up (above, in an aquarelle-pencil-and-duct-tape departure from Crayolas), beat a flying Mark Webber to pole by half a second, a glory which lasted at least three seconds. Because last across the line was Sebastian Vettel, who in turn beat Hamilton by half a second for the 24th pole of his career. That's a lot of pole positions. Vettel is now eighth on the all-time list, and as for percentage of pole positions, he's behind Fangio, Clark, Ascari, Senna, and nobody else.
Red Bull had looked vulnerable in the past three races and what they did to fend off McLaren and Ferrari was to push yet another parameter, front camber,
to beyond the limit. Pirelli recommends a maximum of four degrees of negative camber on the front wheels, which was translated by Red Bull technical director Adrian Newey, as quoted by the BBC, as "just a hair over four, four and an eighth, or something, just a tiny bit over". Such ludicrous imprecision from Formula One's resident rocket scientist probably translates to five. Just a hair over. Five and an eighth. Or something. Negative camber helps grip, not by a tiny bit, but it also puts extra strain on the inner sidewalls, and by the time qualification was over, blisters had formed on the inside edges of Red Bull's front tires. Other teams were also affected by this to a lesser degree. Red Bull had the option of changing tires, but at the cost of starting from the pit lane, and you can guess what they did.
Vettel got away nice and clean, Webber stalled and dropped back to tenth, but it was Nico Rosberg from fifth who got the most incredible start. He was second already by the time they zoomed out of Eau Rouge, and cleanly passed Vettel for the lead on the Kemmel Straight. The Mercedes and its straight line speed at work.
Bruno Senna, back in Formula One as a replacement for Nick Heidfeld at Renault, had qualified a superb 7th, then promptly screwed up the braking zone into the first corner, and ran into the side of Jaime Alguersuari's Toro Rosso. He managed to salvage 13th and avoided getting lapped, not bad for his first time ever in the car on a full load of fuel.
Up front, Vettel repassed Rosberg, and was followed by Hamilton and the Ferraris. On lap five, he came in for fresh tires and immediately upped his pace. In the midfield, Michael Schumacher was climbing his way relentlessly up the grid after losing a tire in qualification, posting no time, and starting from dead last.
Then it was time for the most spectacular pass of the race. Fernando Alonso emerged from the pits to find Mark Webber's Red Bull coming at him in the downhill straight into Eau Rouge. Alonso was momentarily ahead, but Webber kept his foot in, and passed the Ferrari at the bottom of the corner with millimeters to spare on each side. It was fabulous stuff, aided by nothing but pure driver skill.
Hamilton was looking strong all weekend, running up front, until it was time for a display of his careless side, fairly well concealed since Monaco. After overtaking Kamui Kobayashi on the Kemmel, he moved to the left for the racing line, never bothering to look for Kobayashi's Sauber. It was there. The two made contact, and Hamilton flew off the circuit, into a big Styrofoam barrier, and his race was over. "After watching the replay, I realize it was my fault today 100%. I didn't give Kobayashi enough room," Hamilton tweeted after the race.
Hamilton's crash meant safety car time, and this meant a lucky pitstop for Vettel, who was comfortably in the lead by the time racing resumed after a few laps. He proceeded to run one of his signature races, when he does nothing but drive very, very fast up front. We will have to learn of his overtaking abilities on another day. Fireworks were the responsibility of Jenson Button—who scythed through the field with dozens of beautiful passes, including one on Fernando Alonso in the antepenultimate lap, to claim third from 13th—and Michael Schumacher, who celebrated 20 years in Formula One with a drive from 24th to fifth. Mark Webber finished second after he shook off his terrible start and made full use of his Red Bull.
The 2011 Belgian Grand Prix was a connoisseur's race. It didn't have unnecessary drama, it didn't have politics, it wasn't gimmicky, the weather didn't play too big a part. It was racing, pure and simple racing, it had fantastic overtakes which owed little to artificial aids, it had inspired drives, great comebacks, and it had Spa-Francorchamps. Strange to think that after a century of science, Formula One's most awesome circuit is still the result of a chance meeting between a newspaperman and the chairman of the Belgian automobile club in a hotel in 1920, isn't it?
We have seven more races and three more fantastic tracks—Monza, Suzuka and Interlagos—on the calendar, and if Vettel keeps driving like this, the only question is, will he become double world champion in Japan or in South Korea?
Not that there's anything to complain about. The championship may be the antithesis of last year's nail-biter, but the quality of this year's races is way up there, no doubt aided by the strongest field of drivers since the late 1980s.
The 2011 Formula One Season in Crayola
Australia | Malaysia | China | Turkey | Spain | Monaco | Canada | Europe | Britain | Germany | Hungary | Belgium | Italy | Singapore | Japan | South Korea | India | Abu Dhabi | Brazil
Illustration by Peter Orosz. Gallery curated by Natalie Polgar. Photography by Vladimir Rys/Getty Images, Lars Baron/Getty Images, Tom Shaw/Allsport, Mark Thompson/Getty Images. Map of North-Central France and South Belgium from 1703 by Nicolas Sanson, scanned and uploaded by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.


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